As you know doubt recall our fondness for prematurely deceased abduction researcher Dr. Karla Turner … I replied to her request in 1995 for information on blind abductees.

You can find her original letter at my site:

http://www.elfis.net/elfol3/letters3.html

My response was …

“Here in Austin, I know of three blind individuals who have had “sightings” of UFOs or related encounters. All three were born sighted, though, and most of their encounters would not generally be termed “abductions.” The one man witnessed several UFOs before loosing his sight to a form of diabetes. The other two women also had sightings prior to losing their sight. One encountered an entity/apparition while living at the Austin school for the blind which is a farely well known “ghost zone.” All of these experiencers have intriguing stories to tell that we hope to carry in future issues. In the mean time please help Karla Turner with this potentially insightful area of research.”

I posed the same question to the UFO UpDates eList in 1998 with no response until someone else posted the question in 1999:

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1998/dec/m18-013.shtml

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+site:virtuallystrange.net+%22blind+abductees%22+%22ufo+updates%22

While I tend to consider UFO Sightings, Close Encounters and Abduction reports as more or less distinctly different animals, these questions are valid. Thanks for bringing Mac’s notes to our attention.

SMiles